The client who spoke to The Tribune said the decision feels like the latest in a string of events at the school targeting the LGBTQ community. “It’s one thing after another,” they said. “It’s destabilizing and makes you worry about what’s coming next.'
prohibiting gender-based discrimination. Those include the ability to enforce its own preferences while recruiting and admitting students and giving out financial aid.
“changing dress or grooming, or changing a name or pronouns, to present oneself as other than his or her biological sex at birth.”BYU’s note to faculty said speech therapy to help an individual align their voice to a sex not assigned at birth would be considered by the school to be a part of transitioning. And it will not assist in that process.
It’s considered medical care, just the same as other speech therapies to help with stuttering or voice disorders.One student in the communication program said the change has been deeply upsetting and has roiled the department. Communication classes were canceled Wednesday as students processed the change.
Now there’s concern that dropping services only for transgender clients could threaten the program’s accreditation. , which approves BYU’s program, states: “Individuals shall not discriminate in the delivery of professional services or in the conduct of research and scholarly activities on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity/gender expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, disability, culture, language, or dialects.
R.J. Risueño, a former BYU student who earned his undergraduate degree there, is now a licensed speech-language pathologist specifically working with transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in Arizona. He said he sees the decision at BYU as discriminatory.
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